SOUTH SUDAN

PROPEL-SOUTH SUDANPromoting Resilience through Ongoing Participatory Engagement and Learning

About PROPELIn September 2015, USAID awarded the 3-year, $22.4 million Promoting Resiliency through Ongoing Participatory Engagement and Learning (PROPEL) program to Global Communities and partner Catholic Relief Services. This program is bringing together communities and strengthening their capacity to drive their own development through harnessing their own resources, leveraging other donor-funded programs, and advocating for additional support to implement projects that address priority needs. PROPEL promotes social cohesion and resilience within South Sudanese communities while providing tangible improvements in the lives of their residents and laying the groundwork for cooperation between them and the Government of the Republic of South Sudan (GoRSS) when feasible.

PROPEL uses a flexible, lo-cally-driven, learning-focused approach to meet USAID South Sudan’s goal of engaging a range of different types of com-munities in South Sudan through a process of community-driven development and associated assessments which will inform the design of future development interventions based on the revealed needs of these different types of communities.

PROPEL is targeting over 30 communities in Juba, Magwi, Awerial, Duk and Bor Counties, informed by robust community mapping including household surveys, focus group discussions, key informant interviews and thematic and conflict analysis with a special emphasis on women and youth. (See map on next page.)

PROPEL Development Hypothesis IF community members are engaged in identifying, prioritizing, and responding to their development challenges through an inclusive participatory methodology that puts them at the forefront of decision-making, THEN community resilience capacities to respond to natural and conflict-related shocks and stressors will improve, and peace will be promoted through improved inter- and intra-communal relationships.

The first meeting of the Jebel Community Enhancement Team (Juba County).

SOUTH SUDAN

PROPEL-SOUTH SUDANPromoting Resilience through Ongoing Participatory Engagement and Learning

Cohort One Target Communities

Participatory Action for Community Enhancement (PACE) Participatory Action for Community Enhance-ment (PACE) is a process whereby communi-ties are engaged, motivated, and empowered to drive long-term local change. The benefits of PACE come from both the actual develop-ment projects that are implemented as a re-sult of the process but also from the process itself. The PACE process explicitly promotes inter- and intra-community dialogue and strengthens community relations, enhancing a community’s ability to reduce chronic risks as well as to adapt to problems as they arise.

1. Develop Community

Projects

2. Mobilize Resources

3. Execute Community

Projects

4. Oversee projects and

inform stakeholders

Stage 2: Taking Action Stage 3:Taking Ownership & Sustaining Action

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PACE STAGES AND CYCLES DURING LIFE OF PROGRAM

Community Action

Planning

Mapping/Prioritize

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Develop community

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Stage 1: Setting the Foundation

PACE Stages and Cycles During Life of Program

NORTHERN BHAR EL GHAZEL

WESTERN BHAR EL GHAZEL

WESTERN EQUATORIA

ETHIOPIA

SUDAN

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

CENTRALAFRICAN

REPUBLIC

UGANDA

JONGLEI

UPPER NILE

UNITY

WARRAP

EASTERN EQUATORIA

LAKES

DUK

BOR

DorokAyueldit

PatuenoiPoktap

Mingkaman

Malek

Jebel

Pariak

Lologo

Kalthok

AyiiAbara Pajo

Caigon

Hor

Aguarkuoth

County HQ Boma

AWERIAL

MAGWI

JUBA

SOUTH SUDAN

PROPEL-SOUTH SUDANPromoting Resilience through Ongoing Participatory Engagement and Learning

Collaborating, Learning and Adapting in PROPELPROPEL is utilizing a critical case study approach to explore and assess a range of fac-tors that influence CDD outcomes in South Su-dan. Learning in PRO-PEL is mainstreamed through periodic check-ins, reflections and training, where program staff are required to grapple with MERL data and plan programming adaptations.

Contact UsFor more information, contact Patrick O’Mahony, Chief of Party, pomahony@globalcommunities.org

Global Communities, Hai Cinema, Juba, South Sudan

Paramount chief of Aguarkuoth Boma in Awerial County, Abraham Angolic Deng, speaks during community engagement meeting.

South Sudan Community Driven Development (CDD) Learning Network

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Reflections, check-ins, and refinements